Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-06
GENERAL.

GENERAL
A WOMAN and two children were fatally
poisoned at Mill Grove, Ont, recently by
the administration of morphine in place OF
quinine.
ADyIcEs saw that the Spanish Governor
OF Ponape has been killed and that many
wounded have taken refuge on Spanish
pontoon. The insurgents are masters OF
the island. Two war ships have been sent
to the scene.
THE Empress of Germany has sent as a
jubilee present to the Pope set OF ecclesi-
asrical vestments made with her own
hands.
PRINCE BISMARCK has expressed his re-
grets to the French Government for the
shooting incident at Raon-sur-Plaine, by
which one French sportsman was killed
and another wounded by German COR
poral, who was under the impression they
were trespassing on his country's terri
tory.
PRINCE HoHENLoHE's appeal to Russia
from exemption from the land ukase has
proved fruitless.
COLONEL HUGHEs-HALLETr, the British
member of Parliament accused of grave
scandals, has resigned.
FIFTY persons, principally Jews, have
been convicted at Riga, Russia. of arson
and conspiracy to defraud Insurance COM
panies.
THE Krrez Zeit,tng announces. that the
Sultan of Zanzibar has allotted the whole
coast coded to him by the agreement Of No
vember, 1866; to Englishmen, the Germans
abandoning all authority in the same for an
annual payment.
IT is stated in Berlin that the Frenchman
shot on the frontier was killed on German
soil, this being proved by blood stains on
the ground. The two soldiers who &C
companled Kaufman aver that they saw
the Frenchmen trespassing on German ter
ritory and shouted to warn them. The
Frenchmen paid no heed to their cries and
attacked the Kaufman party The Ger
mans then fired, all concerned being at the
time on German soil.
THERE are rumors current to the effect
that the relations between Mexico and
Guatemala are greatly strained, but moth
ing definite has TRANSFERRED to either verify
or disproVe them.
THE Nacio,laE, of the City of Mexico, calls
on the Government to at once establish
strict quarantine against every thing COM
ing from the city of New York, owing to
the arrival at that port of a vessel infected
with cholera.
A CHINESE transport was recently
wrecked on one of the Pescadores islands.
Three hundred soldiers and the captain and
crew, with the exception of one man, were
drowned.
FIVE hundred tenants on the Kingston
estate IN lfelanu nave dpplISu dO GuS OK
pense of the National League to have their
rents fixed under the Land act.
THE Spanish Government has decided to
reduce Cuban duties on the necessaries Of
life and articles used in industries.
TLGHMANN, formerly American vice con-
sui in Berlin, has been arrested on charges
of having defrauded American and German
tradesmen.
THE British steamer Matthew Cay has
off nicto taf1
persons have been drowned.
THE statue of Francis Deak was unveiled
at Pesth recently in the presence of EN-
peror Francis Joseph, Archduke Joseph
and other distinguished persons.
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH opened the
Hungarian Diet on the 29th. In his address
he said that the relations of the empire
with foreign powers were friendly and
satisfactory, but that the general situation
necessitated the strengthening of the mill
tary power.
NJ. FERRY, in a speech at Epinal said that
the republic regarded the manifesto of the
Count of Paris with contemptuous indiffer-
ence. The French people did not fear the
pretenders
AN agreement has finally been reached
between the window-glass workers and the
factory owners on the basis of a five per
cent. increase in wages.
JENNY LIND, the once famous songstress,
who has been dangerously Ill with paraly-
sis, is reported recovering.
ADvICEs from Hawaii state that at the
election held September IL all the members
of the new House were elected on the plat
form OF the Reform party, supporting the
new constitution and ministry.